May 2016 Babies

May baby moms-tubal ligations updates

Hey ladies! Hope you all are weathering the sun showers of life well! Curious for who had a tubal after their May baby. How are you feeling? How's your entire cycle coming along? Symptoms? Etc

I'm having a hard time here. May 13 I delivered baby #5 via csection and elected to tie my tubes while in surgery. Everything seemed all good. I breastfed until exactly Oct 13 when baby was 6 months old. My periods had already returned and were irregular. Which is normal for me and breastfeeding. My milk dried within about 30 days and my normal periods resumed right away every 28 days with cycle day 12-14 ovulation. I'm pretty much text book. I was not previously on any birth controls for any lengths of time as I don't do well with them. My first cycle was heavy but thereafter normal normal normal. Until this month :( what went wrong? I ovulated as planned around cycle day 12-14. And the cramps began and they have gotten increasingly worse, I'm nauseous and blah yucky feeling! Geez! I'm 1 day late today. If my tubes weren't tied I'd say I was pregnant. I don't think that's the case. Certainly if I become 5 days late or so I'll test for good measure. I'm so miserable. I never thought this would be me. I developed serious back problems 6 months post partum. That's why I had to stop nursing. I immediately took off 50 pounds yesss 50!!! Trying anything to help the sciatica or whatever I got going. Honestly it didn't help. My quality of life is terrible. I'm in so much pain. From my back to my cramps. I'm sad. Is this my new life? Is this PTLS? Ugh please no! I've got kids to care for a husband. Laundry lol lol

I had my tubes removed and about 3 weeks post partum I developed severe pain in my back and abdomen which required a CT and they found nothing to explain the pain. It was way worse than just normal c section recovery pain. I ended up taking 800 mg ibuprofen for a week and then it just went away. I had not started my cycle yet. One Dr thinks it was a uterine spasm or spasms. No one really knows for sure what caused it. I still get back pain some days and depending on the day of my cycle I need to take at least 2 Advil. Have you taken anything to help with the pain? I feel for you ;(

Hey there!! Thank you for the response. I take ibuprofen. It helps for sure. I just don't like needing something so much ya know. it's frustrating. Me and my husband discussed the possibility a tubal could be hard on my body. I just hoped I'd get lucky just this one time and tolerate a form of birth control.

I had my tubes tied during my May c section. I have only had 1 period since her birth and I am not breastfeeding. I feel yucky most of the time. I could not tolerate any form of hormonal birth control. My husband didn't want to have a vasectomy so that's how we came to the decision to have it done.

I thought I know about all the side effects, apparently I didn't :( I get a lot of random pain that feels like ovulation but I never have anything come of it.

I had my tubal during my C section on May 12. 3rd child, 1st c section. I'm nursing so my period has not been normal. Recovery went well and everything seemed to be healed. At about 7 months one spot of the scar felt tender. I thought it was odd since everything was going well, but wasn't too concerned because I wasn't in pain. It went away after a day or two. A couple weeks later I got my period and it was the worse ever! Very bad cramps and I was going through a tampon and overnight pad every 2 hours. This went on for a couple days. I probably would have called my doctor, but was on the way to my Grandmothers funeral... It slowed up and I thought I would call the doctor if it happened again. I've had my period once since then and it was normal. Not sure if the tenderness was related or just stress of my Grandmothers passing, but I couldn't believe how bad it was. I hope you feel better! Maybe the next round won't be so bad!

I had my tubal on May 10 during my 4th c section. I am still ebf and had not had any periods. I had an ablation done on Dec 29 so I should never have another one again. I highly recommend having one! I did bleed for 4 weeks after it but it was more of when you wipe and not like a monthly cycle. Best decision ever!

I am still EP but have had two periods. The first was in November. It decreased my supply and was very heavy with cramps, etc. the next was 45 days later and not as rough as the first. No back pain, etc at this point.

Sorry about your grandma. I lost mine recently as well. I think I've heard as we switch sides ovulating our periods change too. one side may always be a nightmare I think my right size is the evil one lol

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